A while back, I received a press release spam1 from someone on behalf of a chap that goes by the name Victor Senchenko. Senchenko wrote a book, which he has self-published, and sent me the spam trying to get me to buy it.
As (hopefully) with most people, I don’t generally tend to buy things [...]

OK, I’m not PZ Myers, so I’m not used to getting a bajillion1 comments on each and every post, but those that I do get, I read. And it seems that my last post (the one with the “Dark Ages” graph) has been one of those that some have taken as the “I just [...]

I wasn’t able to blog about this when it first came out, but Tuesday’s The Telegraph has an article about naturalist and broadcaster Richard Attenborough’s complaint to the BBC over a Dutch evangelical christian fundamentalist broadcaster’s “editing” (read ripping to shreds) of a series television programmes, The Life of Mammals, that he has presented for [...]

From the Letters page of The Independent on 22nd December:
Sir: This Christian is left amused and astonished that Johann Hari (Opinion, 21 December) can be so theologically ignorant.
Christianity anti-materialistic? On the contrary, as William Temple observed, it is the most materialistic of all religions, celebrating not only the physical world from quarks to quasars, but [...]

In the most recent of The Times Higher Education Supplement, an article by Rowan Williams, the Archibishop of Canterbury, entitled It is not a crime to hold traditional values argues that the recent arguments over Christian Union (CU) organisations within various universities should be able to associate freely, and should look at their attitudes and [...]

This has been bothering me for a while now, ever since I saw Zak’s Atheist video on YouTube, and I thought that I’d take a closer look at what Psalm 14:1 actually says.
The fool says in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;
there is no one who does good.
New International [...]